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he loved this city just one month after appearing in the bay area , the music giant is dead. devastating. hard to believe. whoosh from his native minneapolis to the bay area, reaction from heartbroken fans . great, great writer. he transcended everything. whoosh also tonight. more than 1=hundred people homeless after a south bay apartment fire. tonight they are facing a tough future in a tight housing market. your life can literally change in an instant whoosh and what's missing from this picture? if you said a green light. you're more observant than these drivers. people behaving badly in a full hour of your choice for prime time news. saying goodbye to a music legend. >> pam:tonight, the world is
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mourning the death of 'prince'. the star known for his musical genius. and unique sense of style. you are looking at a live picture of san francisco's city hall. lit up in purple. a tribute to the late artist. good evening i'm pam moore. we are looking back at the extraorindary life of prince tonight. and his impact here in the bay area. grant lodes is sharing the outpouring of reaction from his fans. and kron-4's j-r stone spoke to locals, who saw prince in his last bay area visit. but first, we remember the life of prince. whose influence stretched around the world. the world is remembering a music legend. >> reporter: he had stunned who and division. warriors and of medical innovation he captured the final performance only a week ago and this is how it all ended rescue workers at his studio and talk to fans about it
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just a few days back. . >> pam: he contributed songs and less x and renowned as a music professor-protectionist. but he was also noted for his personal humanity - taking care of struggling friends, and even
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in the wake of the devastating prince was endlessly prolific - his memoir was supposed to come gone at 57 - some of his final words onstage - "if i could - i would give you >> pam: j.r. has more on his final visit to the bay. >> j.r.: the mayor cordelier the city would be short and purple this evening begins see it warriors callers in the distance bullets have like air within the last five minutes and appears american not changing his legs to purple and all the thugs have to come out here in hopes of getting to see that this evening. talk of some who
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headsaw france last month. this is larry performed his last bay area show early march the american music hall in san francisco. he played as a one- man show in here after oracle arena arriving at 145 and finishing at 4:00 a.m.. this data and other locations and a restaurant called la of them. was data from the employee's manager exception. assams francisco cocktail bar with live
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jazz every night. seven as a vip area and the daughter remembers his visit like it was yesterday. certainly no one would have predicted what was to come. and
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you do see some purple off in the distance public co across the street to the city center ec purple lights inside the civic center and come back all the folks out here to change the will of the you here on kron 4 >> pam:grant lodes is is here now. with industry.and beyond. >> grant:prince was a transcendent superstar. excelling in multiple music genres. a fashion icon.who passionaletly resisted the social media culture.prefering to privately live life.and make music. his last show was just last thursday.at the sold-out fox theatre in atlanta.
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the 57-year-old seemed more than okay.playing two 80 minute sets. people there said he brought the house down. today.we stalked to bay area folks who are stunned about this sudden loss. oakland native shelia - e.who was engaged to prince in the 80's.and also was his drummer and collaborator.tweeted: "my heart is broken. there are no words. i love you!" president obama went on facebook.saying in part "today, the world lost a creative icon. prince did it all. funk. r&b. rock and roll. he was a virtuoso instrumentalist, a brilliant bandleader, and an electrifying performer. nobody's spirit was stronger, bolder or more creative. our thoughts and prayers are with his family, his band and all who loved him." this will be like where were you when you heard about john lennon. michael jackson.elvis and kurt cobain. a true legend of pop tamara: shocking !! i'm crying and sad. rip prince !! you & your music will be missed !!!! karen: we have rain in our forecast tomorrow. it will be purple.
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right now on kron4.com.we have a special section dedicated to prince's life and legacy. there's a picture slideshow of his amazing outfits throught the years. also, oyou can listed to his hit songs.we've also posted the 911 call when he was found lifeless
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in his elevator. a sad day for so many.as we mourn a true superstar and musical genuis. we are following breaking news >> pam: tonight. a large sinkhole opens up in the middle of san francisco. shutting down streets. kate cagle joins us live from sacramento and lyon streets. >> reporter: as the much bigger
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since then a lot of neighbors here in the neighborhood tell me their surprise see this because the street was only three pave a year ago and the woman who was behind it is
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played pretty positive folks were not here as recently as a month doing sort surprises people as much damage public- works department working but here's a more barricades' up this readily shared out there tomorrow morning.
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two back to back crashes on highway - 80. killed a man, and injured several others this morning. >> reporter: the city condemned the building and a law for neighbor is was a homeless. back into apartment handful end. i grabbed the stuff i use on a daily basis and i grabbed a bag full of shoes and a couple work shirts and that was it. everything else i just kissed goodbye. a few people have found new places to live on their own, others are staying with family or friends but most, like edith, are in hotel rooms temporarily paid for by the city. many of those still looking for new rentals have ended up here, at sunnyvale community services. marie bernard is the executive director. she says the challenge is unprecedented. sot we've never seen anything like this. 76 families displaced all in one day. nats bernard and her team are scouring the bay area looking for available rentals but many of the residents from twin pines manor are low income. finding them affordable listings in the bay area's red hot rental market is tough, to say the least. sot these are folks who are low income. they are living near the edge. they don't have a
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rainy day fund so this is catastrophic for them. despite the challenges, community services has been able to find apartments for 15 people and they hope to have everyone settled in a few months, a year at most. edith is still looking for a new home and doing her best to stay positive. sot it's hard to deal with but i'm trying to get to a place where i'm ok. in sunnyvale, charles clifford kron 4 news. our sports director gary radnich will join us at 8:45 - tonight. with an update on tonight's game, as the warriors look to take a commanding 3-oh lead in the best of seven series. stick around for that. in the east bay there are new allegations tonight against the dental assistant suspected of sexually abusing young patients.
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grant is here to tell us what prosecutors revealed today. alejandro saro is currently being held on eight million dollars bail. he was arrested two weeks ago on suspicion of molesting and videotaping four young victims at two clinics in concord. now prosecutors say there may be as many as seven victims, all of them girls between the ages of six and 12.
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prosecutors say he molested them while the young girls were sedated and in one instance while getting x-rays. he is due to enter a plea two weeks from today. a small group of activists began >> pam: a hunger strike today outside of the san francisco mission district police station. this group says they would not eat until police chief greg suhr resigns or is fired due to recent police shootings. activists have called for the resignation of chief suhr since december after the deadly
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shooting of mario woods who was carrying a knife at the time of the shooting. activist edwin lindo who is participating says this strike is necessary. the group says they expect hundreds more to join the strike. >> pam:her mother was found dead in a san francisco park nearly two weeks ago. since then 2-year- old arianna fitts has not been seen. now police are digging for clues. trying to figure out where the toddler is. and who murdered her mother. as kron-4's dan kerman tells us san francisco police are saying tonight. they believe little arianna is still alive. over to the right you have pictures of a smiling vibrant 2 year old thursday afternoon san francisco police called for the public's help in finding 2 year old arianna fitts. the 2 year old girl has been missing for weeks or possibly longer. sot cmdr. greg mceachern/san francisco police 17-27 we are pleading with you, contact us , if you don't want to talk to the police call a friend somebody knows some information about where she is, please help us bring home that beautiful 2 ½ year old girl
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police believe arianna was being watched by family friends. searched warrants have been served in oakland, daly city and emeryville, and 30-thousand pieces of information has been gathered but so far no sign of the little girl. sot it is very rare you see cases like this rare, because arianna's mother nicole fitts also went missing on april first. her body was discovered buried in this 2 1/2 by 3 foot hole in mcclaren park on april 8th. police say the hole was covered up by this plywood board. sot if the individduals who brought nicole to the place where she was buried this shallow grave we believe they brought this board with them , we are hopeful someone knows the individuals who brought that board or knows something about that board and can help us identify them police also say on the night she was last seen, nicole fits took muni down the 3rd street or san bruno corridor to see someone she knew. she was wearing her best buy shirt anyone who may have seen her should contact police
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we're getting closer to the weekend. and there's rain in the forecast. our meterologist brittney shipp tells us what is in our forecast for the next few days. california water officials decided to ease water cutbacks. after this spring's storms helped boost the state's reservoirs. the state is still in a drought. >> britteny: colossal into a week and that's always good will effective friday morning all little extra time to get to where you need to go in the morning possibly in the evening finite most rainfall should be done into the rest of tonight just as skeptical law before it
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gets here a lot the clock a few passing sprinkles. by 6:00 a.m. fairfield minivan heavy downpours a.m. eastern see the largest heavier rain coming down close to the train will be in the south bay and then by a clock another round of the '70s in the autumn of showers through the korean and the mostly cloudy skies threatened late everything clears up nicely temperature is 65 then at the 67 rows of the '60s conquered 66 san jose 64 and sunnyvale 03 date forecast showed a day of rain tomorrow
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saturday sunday lisa to try things out and then the 70 forecast all the notes and store and another 15 minutes. >> pam: but recent rain has helped fill key reservoirs in northern california. so the department of water resources is providing some districts with 60- percent of the water they requested this year. that's the fourth increase in
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recent months. however. water managers are urging everyone to still conserve, in order to help stretch water supplies. new tonight at 8 much more from prince coming up tonight.
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people wonder if this assignable
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pop tech transfer porter shows the impact of intel layoffs could be in the bay area and an expert a possibility of a bubble. 6,200 work in santa clara the >> gabe:most of the job cuts are coming from their pc departments likely assembly line. places where they are manufactering the pc components. from the anaylysts i spoke with it sounds like locally here there won't be to many layoffs. but still 12,000 that is a huge number and makes you wonder. is it a sign of a bubble pop ? sot - laura mandaro - usa today the pc is dying. it's all about mobile now so intell is having to shift their focus they are actually buying up companies and investing in research and development but at the same time laying off laura is with usa today she is keeping a close eye on silicon
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valley and the bubble she says there are still a lot of companies hiring other chip makers are doing well it's likely a lot of the intel laid off workers will scooped up quickly so the news of these intel layoffs is not a for sure sign of a bubble pop. but it is anotehr sign of the slow down that is happening right now in the tech scene tehre are less new start ups popping up on the scene monthly. and it's taking longer for startups to get funding. nats: ambiance can you count just how many vehicles in the video ran the red light here is a hint chances are you will lose count, i'll show all the crazy stuff i found in the next edition of people >> pam: seems to be happening more often a student assault, on-camera and a party in the park in san francisco clinic was no fun. behaving badly
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>> reporter: first let's talk a attributes and the fans. the has been the most remarkable of the last several hours skinning and paisley park studios and the
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last several hours fans of hundreds of opossums gone through end paying their respects time: balloons of course some giant hose cards allot are still in shock this was a hometown hero. he grew up here moved away and then came back and embraced his roots fans always appreciated that. a 30 minute drive north east of where we are and we're looking at live picture and all night dance party happening ministry of a downtown minneapolis. still some
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questions with what happened today. " authorities here death had occurred in the property. no one knew what that death was not identified to the person was. was inside the building unresponsive and an elevator. call than 11 short time later they announced prince that after 10:00 a.m.. most people have been scratching their heads trying to figure out what
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happened 57 years old. . he had the flu in recent weeks of of the net most people trying to figure out what happened here. we can't tell you we expect autopsy will be performed tomorrow. drizzle official announcement about a service and will keep you updated if we hear more remain. expects to learn the after the autopsy results come out. >> pam: but the cameras are
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coming to the san jose police department chief of police other city leaders are meeting with the community to talk about the body one carries and how they will be used. >> reporter: meeting started around 7:00 going on for more than an hour-and-a-half more than seven dozen people a good peaceful crowd and then also office of police otter. cal led program and equipment: use it.
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and then hired to train the rest of the crew. every patrol officer and then some possibly earlier in july. and how these cameras hopefully will lead to greater trust. our stanley roberts looks intersections are on the bay area they believe are dangerous. and then broken as cara filed this report. around
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the bay that viewer believe are dangerous or just however this time he noticed on intersection in san francisco while stopped at a light broke out his camera and filed this i going to show you the intersection of jefferson and grant where joggers ignore buses and make them wait its where driver use the dedicated trolly lane where there are no signals then cross sross the road with total disregard to cross traffic nats: ambiance where trollys are blocked for ectended periods of time because driver stop on the tracks then blame the auto in front for making them stop there it's a spot where passengers paly a gane of hurry up and load, for get that the other drivers hasve some where to go but the biggest problem i saw wat this nat: ambiance rampant disreguard for the traffic lights, there two sets of lights on permits driver to go straight and the other is a dedicated left only turn often you will see driver
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running both lights, here is an example you are about to witness upwards to 8 cars run the red arrow one driver had the green but then turned left even a big rig was part of the conga line of red light runners. nats: ambiance and if one ran the light others were quick to follow like this sightseeing bus notince the no turn on red sign asn the bus turns on red nats: ambiance now some of the driver do some i find amazing, they get the green to go straight then then will make the ledt turn over the solid with line i cant perdict the future but i see some motorcycles with radios and ticket books at this intersection in the near future. i hope i get invited to that party just out side pier 39 in san francisco stanley roberts kron 4 news
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a 15-year-old boy is dead.and his parents say a youtube video is to blame. they say their son was trying to perfect a science experiement that he saw in a video.and ended up electrocuting himself. >> britteny:
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a 15-year-old ohio boy is dead, and his family says a you-tube video is to blame. they say the teen was trying to perfect a science experiment he saw in a video, and ended up electrocuting himself. harry boomer explains. --reporter pkg-as follows-- that's how 15-year-old morgan wojciechowski's step-grandfather describes him. morgan had an inquisitive mind. like many his age, he loved the internet. his family believes it was his apparent fascination with a video on you-tube that led tothe experiment morgan was called jacob's ladder. it uses a power source, two copper wires and some other connections to create a 12- electricity. in this instance, it proved to be deadly. morgan had been getting things ready for his experiment. while. he has been gathering "there were injuries that were
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flowing through someone's body, on hands, feet and chest." needs to be stopped. we need to monitor what's going on and the kids." highly.
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let's say security men the cluster number of everything up 40 year-old student triggered minor injuries that a local hospital. it is cooperating with
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police in the investigation lower highs close student dead after she was insulted by several other students. the restrooms stephenson said the devastated after today's event police say it a fight broke up between 2/7 and a 16 year-old is now dead they told reporters the victim and another grower fighting over a boy during a fight the victim fell backward hit her head and the restrooms think one parent says she shocked because the schools not known for violence.
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>> gary: will check back with grant to see the back of his head. as larry wendt said. the
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